Test Drive Hummer H2 since 2002 SUV

King of beasts

Turn off the water! shouted the washer to his partner. Listen to the engine! Low River Multi-Motor Motor shake the air of a close box, the moisture droplets shoved in the tact of juicy eight-cylinder modulation. Recovery with washdides, the tan-like Hummer-H2 rolled out to the light of God.
Catapult in three hundred
It was necessary to master the steering wheel in the evening traffic jams when white collars went home. At first, I used the cargo receptions, I did not slowly, so that the yard cars had time to slip out of the uneasy zones. The automotive population in the main mass turns out to be much lower than the shelling sector from the narrow winds-booties. The width of the body (even without mirrors) is 2063 mm, so not in every gap will be squeezed, especially without habit. And almost the seventer turning radius causes maneuver carefully. One joy with Hummer nobody is trying to start a power struggle, unconditionally inferior to the road.
By the way, now, to drive Hummer, no freight category C. Eliminating the second battery, an additional sixth place in the trunk, winch and other equipment, Cars of Kaliningrad assembly were put at 3.5 tons of total mass border Category V.
Soon, mastered and drove like everything. Once the first at stop line, with pleasure, demonstrating the attraction of the catapult of the start of three tons of iron under the roar of more than three hundred horses. The show is impressive not as many indicators (dozen seconds before hundreds of the result is good, but not outstanding), how many locomotive inevitability.
Life succeeded!
Colleague navigator drives a finger on the atlas, mumbling fabulous names: a big swamp, princess, cherry, cartilage, everyday life, Liegehogoko they sound the song after a fume, crowded with people and cars of the capital. But the most incredible thing is that in any of these settlements we can already be in the evening! And it is not at all necessary that they are strung on the red line of the highway or yellow highway. We are completely enough thin black string of other roads and even dotted roads without coverage will test Russian Hummer with native villagers.
So far under us highway. It seems that the car froze, and over the windows with a speed of 100 km / h scroll scenery heavy body barely shake when the huge wheels with a diameter of almost a meter flush, in front of which the passenger cars are desperate. Manevours need to build in advance this Mahina is coming with the dignity of the lincard. All noise remained somewhere outside, the wheel of the invoice, the motor is deeply mourned at one and a half thousand. If you enable climate and cruise controls and fall apart in a soft chair with numerous adjustments, heating, full illusion arises, which caused life!
Polystai menu of the board computer and settings for service functions. Would you like to know the workshop in motorcycles or mileage on the fuel residue? At what speed automatically lock the doors? How many seconds to burn Famra after arming? And you want, the seat will automatically move off to relieve the output, and the mirrors show the border when the rear transmission is turned on?
Gas station in addition!
Well, well, why so lose, I would have pulled freely in the fourth gear! On the rim, the cruise control caused the box to go to the step down and led gas. Hummer with enthusiasm rushed forward, an instant fuel consumption pointer shot from the usual 19 to 48 liters per hundred. Fortunately, the usual AI-92 is it recommended for a moderately forced motor.
The factory data shows only the reserve of the course on the 121-liter (!) Bake 500 km. You can believe: we have 23.1 l / 100 km on the highway, and on average, during the test, taking into account traffic jams, a landfill and off-road about 28 liters. On gasoline, where the local clarity is filled with 1015 liters, a holiday happened when Hammer approached.
Tanks are afraid not mud
The next day, we move the Volga and go to the unknown tracks, following the prompts of the electronic compass on the inner mirror. By the way, under the light of foreign headlights automatically darkens not only it, but also the outer mirrors great!
The asphalt ended, the grader went, then at all the alms alone, the clayey village of red metallic was disappeared under the layer of dirt. But somewhere there was a solid ground clinging for him, our all-terrain vehicle was confidently preparing forward. Even the additional transmission capabilities did not need a regular permanent full drive. The four-millimeter steel stove under the engine and the protective grid under the box were guaranteed from damage to bottom and stones.
And here is some sandy quarry, and what is important, even with alone tharanny bulldozer. Away doubt!
The reduced row of transmission it means a huge torque is multiplied by 2.64 more! Feel power? Luxury in a quarter meter in the area of \u200b\u200bthe axes, blocking the inter-axle and rear inter-track differentials with such arsenal, we are going to storm a quarry. In half an hour, having cut it with rips, after all, put in a belly on the hill inflection of the hill, given the long base of the all-terrain vehicle and our irrepressible enthusiasm. The last tool of the rear axle pneumatic suspension is also helped, it adds another 50 mm lumen. Alas, it was necessary to do in advance. Now the wheels have already dug their pits. By the way, it is not worth grinding in such a situation: a powerful hydraulic tape can bend thin steering. But the tows are engaged in envy of another Bether. All came, where there is a bulldozer? ..
Down with the complexes!
In a few days, that I lived with this monster, I managed to get used to the increased attention of others: drivers of neighboring machines folded the neck, the passers-by barrier to take a picture nearby, traffic cops in the questions forgot to check the documents, and the hourhouse cafe even asked the autograph. Such a car, to all other advantages, an excellent assertive agent. And do not believe evil languages \u200b\u200bthat claim that Hammer is only a male equivalent of an inflatable bra. It's they from envy
Hummer H2.
Ozvodnik produced since the end of 2002 in Mishawak (Indiana, United States). In May 2004, an assembly was established in Kaliningrad at the enterprise Avtotor.
Engine: Gasoline VORTEC V8 6.0 L (321 liters.)
Transmission: 4-speed automatic, all-wheel drive transmission.
Required: Base, Adventure, Luxury.
Price in Russia: $ 90,02095 420 (to order version for $ 86,500).
SUMMARY
Hammer H2 is a great all-terrain vehicle and show stopper with truck chas. The king of animals in the automotive flock.
+ High off-road qualities, soft comfortable suspension, excellent dynamics, a huge supply of power, a spacious interior, a rich equipment.
- Large dimensions, limited maneuverability, mediocre visibility, high fuel consumption.
 
 

 

 


Yuri Neduchov
 

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"